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A very small sampling of my comic book collection \ Image: Dakster Sullivan

Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week as well give you some of the latest in comic book news.

Dakster Sullivan -Detective Comics #0

Detective Comics Issue #0 / Image: Copyright DC Comics

I’ve been a fan of Batman since I was a child, but due to the darkness of his comic book stories, I haven’t read many of them. I decided to pick up Detective Comics #0 on a gut feeling that I would be able to handle the story and I’m happy to say I was right. The story takes you back 10 years, where Bruce is about to learn his final lesson before returning home to Gotham City. The home of the legendary Shihan Matsuda helped shape Bruce Wayne into the man he would need to be to become Batman.

Bruce learned some very valuable and very harsh lessons under Shihan Matsuda. He trained his body to endure physical hardships and his heart to abandon all emotion towards others. I could see this was difficult for him, but he listened to his master and worked hard at every lesson.

The wife of Shihan Matsuda had a different view on things and felt Bruce should not block his emotions or the light from his heart. Instead, she felt he should be full of both light and dark and not allow his heart to wither from lack of loving another. At one point it looked like Bruce was listening to her, but then something happened and I’m afraid everything she said to him turned to dust.

In the end, Bruce had to witness first hand the actions of a person who blocked their heart from the one who loved them and one who felt death was the only solution to a problem.

Smallville Season 11 has become the series I look forward to reading the most every week, thanks to the terrific writing by Bryan Q. Miller and art by Jamal Igle. I love the look of Batman in his Smallville incarnation. The Batsuit appears to similar to chain armor, and I love the attention to detail spent on the cowl. (The cowl only covers half of Bruce’s head, presumably solving the problem of being unable to turn his neck or head that many actors struggled with inside their own “real-life” versions of the Batsuit.)

Image: DC Comics

The current chapter in the story, “Detective,” continues to follow Superman’s first encounters with the World’s Greatest Detective. This week’s digital issue brings Batman face-to-face with Joe Chill, whose name longtime readers of Batman comics will recognize as the murderer of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Smallville Season 11 #18 also includes a subplot with Lex Luthor; while I’m not a huge fan of his scenes because I want to see more of Clark and Bruce, I get a kick out of seeing Lex’s bumbling assistant Otis from the Superman films in Bryan Q. Miller’s world of Smallville.

Each issue of Smallville Season 11 brings Superman and Batman closer together to becoming the World’s Finest team-up. While I wish we could have seen it on the television screen, I have a feeling that seeing it in the continuing story of the comics is just as good of an experience — if not better. Continue Reading “GeekMom: Comic Book Corner — October 3rd, 2012″ »